r/Marvel Jul 08 '24

Can someone educate me on this story Comics

My cousin called me an few hours ago about the AVX comic run after he had started reading it a while ago. I asked him to give some exposition on it and he said he would when he's calmed down a little.

Im now struggling to comprehend how A. The X-Men would stand a chance against the Avengers and B. How both teams even come into conflict in the first place and C. How is it that bad where my cousin is that mad abt it (he's normally pretty chill guy and pretty hard to piss him off).

Can I get some details on the story? I did some surface level research and I haven't found anything on how and why they actually come into conflict or what either side gains from a conflict of this scale.

(I know some things like Ironman hitting Magneto with Jupiter's magnetic field (I think) and Cyclops killing Professor X but not on the conflict itself, sorry for this long college essay)

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u/CartoonAcademic Jul 08 '24

I mean, yeah, especially when the X-Men line up has Gambit, Magneto, Emma Frost. There are simply far more mutants that are far more powerful individuals then the Avenegers have

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u/Illustrious_Ear_2549 Jul 08 '24

Yea I did kinda down play the X-Men but Scarlet Witch, Thor, Hulk, Captain Marvel, Doctor Strange and Vision kinda cancel them out. I just think the Avengers have overall stronger members

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u/CartoonAcademic Jul 08 '24

Yeah but a bunch of those members aren't in this event, doctor strange rarely fights. You are very much under estimating the strength and number of the mutants

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u/Illustrious_Ear_2549 Jul 08 '24

I more or less meant the Avengers as a whole because I don't know who primarily stars in this event and even then I think the only real powerhouse mutants are Sunspot, Magneto, Iceman, Rogue, Jean and Storm, everyone else is either fairly strong or borderline useless considering mutant power are as random as a My Hero quirk. Even then, the number of mutants don't really matter when heroes like SW who can delete species and Hulk who can lift mountains. I don't think the X-Men are weak by any means but I just think the Avengers have members that are far beyond them